And because I have well over 1000 channels, and would not want a nob that percise. Digitally doing channel management like this allows them to insert or remove channels as arbitrarily as they want rather than having to map to a predefined amount of notches in a dial.
No you really don't. The crack already exists today (the Steam debug client that most hl related leaks use), It just needs to be hacked onto the final hl2 release, which will take about 30minutes. As for the demo.. Go download CS:Source and see if it runs on your machine.
If you're not afraid of your console and making your game ugly, theres plenty of ways to speed up the game. If I didn't hate Valve and Counterstrike with a passion now, I'd make a howto, but cvarlist mat_ and screw with those settings for better fps, namely mat_dxlevel 70 as I said in another post.
You release something really cool as a mod to get your companys name known, then its easier to get money for further devel. Look at Natural Selection and Flayra's new company, UnderWorldsEntertainment. Had he just started a company from the begining, noone would pay any attention. Now he has a following, people with money like that.
Greymatter(I think) did the same thing with RTCW:EnemyTerritory.
Its been like that for a long time, and is why I don't purchase games. I'm not going to jump through hoops to get something I paid for working when its infinately easier to download the fully working version. It would be like if buying a cd required you to fill out 5 pages of paperwork (which isnt too far off from what I predict the future will be like) -- If I payed for it, it should JustWork(TM)
Thats why the only games worth what they charge are made by ID. Even their cdkey auth is more lax allowing much easier use for lan parties and such. In the ~10+ years ID has been in buisness, I don't think they've ever required you keep the cd/floppy that you installed off of. Why? Because ID consists of gamers, not buisnessmen. Not that they don't make good buisnessmen(I've seen pictures of carmack's car.), but they put their gaming side first and don't release something that isn't worth playing. Compare that to Valve, who's been milking the same engine AND STORYLINE for ages. No, Valve, Playing as some stupid dude in a vest and a helmet won't make your game interesting again.
I've thought about something similar, the beauty of it would be to make a fully slashdot worthy story (or steal one thats not very public) and then add a simple check if the referer is slashdot, and if it is then do a simple 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 chance of redirecting to lm. You could even submit it as a mainpage article and get it posted for who knows how long, but so far noones really had the time or desire to do that. That might change soon though..
The mozilla problem is serious? Maybe seriously laughable. At first I thought it was something important, like a form of clientside crosssite scripting, but just popping up an input box? As if any site actually uses those, its going to instantly look out of place. If anything a better exploit would be to pop up a Last Measure-ish popup that dances around the screen, then try to abuse the IE drag/drop exploit from it to the new window to possibly run new code , but even thats unlikely.
As it is, this exploit is as pathetic as most spoofing exploits. If you wan't a real spoof, look for the mozilla bugzilla post about the XUL one, where you can entirely replicate a fake paypal and make your own 'site is authenticated' xul windows.
Sounds perfectly reasonable, I'd suggest bugging some people in #mozilla about it. The only problem is quirks mode comes up based on doctype declarations, not on presence of actual bad html.
"Wallhacks are not a defect of the engine (its a tweaked video card driver, something impossible to stop), and Fullbright skins can only be prevented if you verify all the resources on the person's computer prior to connecting, something that the hordes of impatient CS players would not tolerate."
Not in this case.
r_shadowwireframe 1 will give you wireframes around all shadows that show through walls.
r_flashlightfov 120 r_flashlightfar 1000 will give you a flashlight that lights up the whole screen, r_flashlight constant 100 if you want to make it even brighter.
(for the record, the only reason I have no problems releasing these so publicly is Valve is like microsoft as far as refusing to fix things until they're exploited badly.)
As for more tweaks.. try the command "cvarlist mat_" and just look through and play with those. You can lower the quality pretty far with those, and easily raise the framerate. Just changing the directx level to 7.0 (again, mat_dxlevel 70) was enough to give me a 50fps boost (up to >100) Depending on your card and such I'm sure you could get other good boosts by disabling bumpmapping, diffuse lighting, antialiasing, etc. (some of this can be controlled by the "advanced" video settings window, but not to this extreme).
And for all you quake3 lovers out there, theres everyones favorite picmip settings to give you walls that look almost entirely untextured because theyre so low. Personally I can't stand playing like that, but I forsee it becoming the new standard for leauge play since you can change to it after you take your pregame screenshots.
I don't mind that you can cheat, I just mind that it is so easy. I'd atleast like to have had to write some custom hacked shader, or maybe a directx hook. Instead, its all in the console for you. Not that I cheat online, I just treat it like any real hacker would -- break it for the fun and challenge. Maybe thats why I'm so dissapointed at the ease of cheating..
As a reasonably long time(though now former) counterstrike player, I can tell you I'd feel much more appreciated if they wernt charging me to play their beta.
Yes, I've played the 'Final release', but don't kid yourself if you think thats a releaseable product. Within the first 15 minutes of playing I had working wallhacks and fullbright cheats, purely from digging in the console.
And on an unrelated note, mat_dxlevel 70 will give you fps comparable to your hl1 fps. Makes water ugly as all hell, but its worth it if your card sucks.
"I didn't realize that children had a measurable value associated with them."
Yup. +2 points if they havnt grown pubes yet +5 points if you make them bleed -3 points if they consent -10 points if you paid for it (either to them or to their parents)-- That takes the sport out of it. +5 if you get it on camera +5 if you post it on usenet.
Just sell your camera to some 15 year old girl so she can take pictures of herself on the intarweb that hide her imperfections. The more inaccurate the lens the better, as its not like she wont just convert it to black and white and kill the contrast in photoshop anyways.
It could be multiprotocol, which would allow you to talk to your lowly aim friends, but then to use the more advanced features (like shared storage between members like another post mentioned, multithreaded direct connections (that dont break compatability with each new client version) so that you can send and chat at the same time without resulting to stupid tricks(on aim: add a ! to their screenname and you can im it from another window), Xfire-like videogame tracking(for those that dont know, its like valves Steam, only for a ton more games), and whatever else the google hackers can come up with. Even as simple as module support on the protocol layer would be nice-- So anyone could make protocols to do this and carry it over the same protocol)
Simple solution that works for both sides of the issue: Bring back FingerD.
Your client can finger the email address automagicly before sending and have a nice warning if it doesnt think it exists, and then the MTA can finger the sender address to make sure its valid. This way obvious spoofed spam gets dropped. Of course people could still spoof valid addresses, but it would prevent some spam.
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Only because there isn't a -1, Incorrect.
It's LIH-nus, as in "lindows". Look around ftp.kernel.org for SillySounds and you can hear linus pronounce it himself.
Why? This isn't supposed to replace your desktop monitor, its supposed to give you a hud to display specially crafted apps. You could get away with 300x200 on it really, all you'll be doing is outputting info, most likely using text and small icons.
Once it gets a few years of tech down the line, a nice 1600x1200 display to directly overlay images on top of real life could be useful too (eg, showing an infobox on top of people, specificly re-coloring/highlighting objects, etc), but to say its not even useful until its 8x6 is just not thinking.
Thats the same argument I use when people ask why I run windows. I've got the same gnu binutils, perl, gaim, moz, ssh, etc as I would on linux. I could even run kde if I were into that sort of thing (I'm not).
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No. By 'default', Linux boots a console. And again, by 'default', it allocates 8 virtual terminals you can switch to with alt+numberkeys.
Once you install X, you're not using the default, unless you meant a distro's default, in which case none of them default to twm.
And because I have well over 1000 channels, and would not want a nob that percise. Digitally doing channel management like this allows them to insert or remove channels as arbitrarily as they want rather than having to map to a predefined amount of notches in a dial.
No you really don't. The crack already exists today (the Steam debug client that most hl related leaks use), It just needs to be hacked onto the final hl2 release, which will take about 30minutes. As for the demo.. Go download CS:Source and see if it runs on your machine.
If you're not afraid of your console and making your game ugly, theres plenty of ways to speed up the game. If I didn't hate Valve and Counterstrike with a passion now, I'd make a howto, but cvarlist mat_ and screw with those settings for better fps, namely mat_dxlevel 70 as I said in another post.
You release something really cool as a mod to get your companys name known, then its easier to get money for further devel. Look at Natural Selection and Flayra's new company, UnderWorldsEntertainment. Had he just started a company from the begining, noone would pay any attention. Now he has a following, people with money like that.
Greymatter(I think) did the same thing with RTCW:EnemyTerritory.
Its been like that for a long time, and is why I don't purchase games. I'm not going to jump through hoops to get something I paid for working when its infinately easier to download the fully working version. It would be like if buying a cd required you to fill out 5 pages of paperwork (which isnt too far off from what I predict the future will be like) -- If I payed for it, it should JustWork(TM)
Thats why the only games worth what they charge are made by ID. Even their cdkey auth is more lax allowing much easier use for lan parties and such. In the ~10+ years ID has been in buisness, I don't think they've ever required you keep the cd/floppy that you installed off of. Why? Because ID consists of gamers, not buisnessmen.
Not that they don't make good buisnessmen(I've seen pictures of carmack's car.), but they put their gaming side first and don't release something that isn't worth playing. Compare that to Valve, who's been milking the same engine AND STORYLINE for ages. No, Valve, Playing as some stupid dude in a vest and a helmet won't make your game interesting again.
Not to mention how many more tapes you'd be on just to go around asking people for their tapes.
Wouldn't that work a little too well for spam harvesting? like the current trick of embeding img's with unique ids in the url, only less known.
I've thought about something similar, the beauty of it would be to make a fully slashdot worthy story (or steal one thats not very public) and then add a simple check if the referer is slashdot, and if it is then do a simple 1 in 50 or 1 in 100 chance of redirecting to lm. You could even submit it as a mainpage article and get it posted for who knows how long, but so far noones really had the time or desire to do that. That might change soon though..
How much does an OS X license cost?
The mozilla problem is serious? Maybe seriously laughable. At first I thought it was something important, like a form of clientside crosssite scripting, but just popping up an input box? As if any site actually uses those, its going to instantly look out of place. If anything a better exploit would be to pop up a Last Measure-ish popup that dances around the screen, then try to abuse the IE drag/drop exploit from it to the new window to possibly run new code , but even thats unlikely.
As it is, this exploit is as pathetic as most spoofing exploits. If you wan't a real spoof, look for the mozilla bugzilla post about the XUL one, where you can entirely replicate a fake paypal and make your own 'site is authenticated' xul windows.
Sounds perfectly reasonable, I'd suggest bugging some people in #mozilla about it. The only problem is quirks mode comes up based on doctype declarations, not on presence of actual bad html.
* Firefox can't render custom scrollbars or formfields
Show me the part of the css/html spec that defines this. I can show you the part of the faq that says its downright WRONG to do it.
* Having to ditch extensions entirely everytime there's an upgrade
Didn't happen when I switched from 0.9 to 1.0PR.
* Having to restart the browser everytime you install an extension
Yeah. Sucks. Same as IE though. Atleast with extentions like sessionsaver, restarting doesn't make you lose anything.
* Adblock doesn't block ads nearly as well as IE with Admuncher installed (it even blocks text ads!)
Adblock blocks text ads just fine. Anything that has its own display element is blockable (And this includes PRE, P, SPAN, DIV, etc.)
* The TalkBack agent appears way too often for my taste
Download a build with it disabled? I only see it when my browser crashes, which is only due to bad Java causing bad memory leaks.
"Wallhacks are not a defect of the engine (its a tweaked video card driver, something impossible to stop), and Fullbright skins can only be prevented if you verify all the resources on the person's computer prior to connecting, something that the hordes of impatient CS players would not tolerate."
Not in this case.
r_shadowwireframe 1 will give you wireframes around all shadows that show through walls.
r_flashlightfov 120
r_flashlightfar 1000 will give you a flashlight that lights up the whole screen, r_flashlight constant 100 if you want to make it even brighter.
(for the record, the only reason I have no problems releasing these so publicly is Valve is like microsoft as far as refusing to fix things until they're exploited badly.)
As for more tweaks.. try the command "cvarlist mat_" and just look through and play with those. You can lower the quality pretty far with those, and easily raise the framerate. Just changing the directx level to 7.0 (again, mat_dxlevel 70) was enough to give me a 50fps boost (up to >100)
Depending on your card and such I'm sure you could get other good boosts by disabling bumpmapping, diffuse lighting, antialiasing, etc. (some of this can be controlled by the "advanced" video settings window, but not to this extreme).
And for all you quake3 lovers out there, theres everyones favorite picmip settings to give you walls that look almost entirely untextured because theyre so low. Personally I can't stand playing like that, but I forsee it becoming the new standard for leauge play since you can change to it after you take your pregame screenshots.
I don't mind that you can cheat, I just mind that it is so easy. I'd atleast like to have had to write some custom hacked shader, or maybe a directx hook. Instead, its all in the console for you. Not that I cheat online, I just treat it like any real hacker would -- break it for the fun and challenge. Maybe thats why I'm so dissapointed at the ease of cheating..
As a reasonably long time(though now former) counterstrike player, I can tell you I'd feel much more appreciated if they wernt charging me to play their beta.
Yes, I've played the 'Final release', but don't kid yourself if you think thats a releaseable product. Within the first 15 minutes of playing I had working wallhacks and fullbright cheats, purely from digging in the console.
And on an unrelated note, mat_dxlevel 70 will give you fps comparable to your hl1 fps. Makes water ugly as all hell, but its worth it if your card sucks.
"I didn't realize that children had a measurable value associated with them."
Yup.
+2 points if they havnt grown pubes yet
+5 points if you make them bleed
-3 points if they consent
-10 points if you paid for it (either to them or to their parents)-- That takes the sport out of it.
+5 if you get it on camera
+5 if you post it on usenet.
Or even better would be splitting it into 7 1hr chunks to be aired 1-per-day on whatever channel will take it.
Just sell your camera to some 15 year old girl so she can take pictures of herself on the intarweb that hide her imperfections. The more inaccurate the lens the better, as its not like she wont just convert it to black and white and kill the contrast in photoshop anyways.
It could be multiprotocol, which would allow you to talk to your lowly aim friends, but then to use the more advanced features (like shared storage between members like another post mentioned, multithreaded direct connections (that dont break compatability with each new client version) so that you can send and chat at the same time without resulting to stupid tricks(on aim: add a ! to their screenname and you can im it from another window), Xfire-like videogame tracking(for those that dont know, its like valves Steam, only for a ton more games), and whatever else the google hackers can come up with. Even as simple as module support on the protocol layer would be nice-- So anyone could make protocols to do this and carry it over the same protocol)
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Thanks a lot, jerk, what happened to masking spoilers with rot13? Next you'll tell me the lone gunmen died
Simple solution that works for both sides of the issue: Bring back FingerD.
Your client can finger the email address automagicly before sending and have a nice warning if it doesnt think it exists, and then the MTA can finger the sender address to make sure its valid. This way obvious spoofed spam gets dropped. Of course people could still spoof valid addresses, but it would prevent some spam.
Only because there isn't a -1, Incorrect.
It's LIH-nus, as in "lindows".
Look around ftp.kernel.org for SillySounds and you can hear linus pronounce it himself.
Why? This isn't supposed to replace your desktop monitor, its supposed to give you a hud to display specially crafted apps. You could get away with 300x200 on it really, all you'll be doing is outputting info, most likely using text and small icons.
Once it gets a few years of tech down the line, a nice 1600x1200 display to directly overlay images on top of real life could be useful too (eg, showing an infobox on top of people, specificly re-coloring/highlighting objects, etc), but to say its not even useful until its 8x6 is just not thinking.
Thats the same argument I use when people ask why I run windows. I've got the same gnu binutils, perl, gaim, moz, ssh, etc as I would on linux. I could even run kde if I were into that sort of thing (I'm not).
Serverside scripting? Webapps that can accept excel or word documents as input, etc.
So no true halo fans are french?